printer friendly pageLAW 585: Introduction to Transnational Law
International aspects of modern legal practice. Public and private international law, and comparative law. Case studies focus on human rights, environment, trade, and commercial law. National sovereignty in the era of globalization, the democratic deficit of international institutions, theories about why nations obey or disobey international law, how nations internalize or reject international norms, how international institutions interact with national legal systems, and the role of non-state actors in the international system.
Last offered: Winter 2009
LAW 586: Classical Islamic Law
(Same as
RELIGST 201/301). This course covers classical Muslim law with an emphasis on methods of textual interpretation. It provides an overview of the history of pre-modern Islamic law: formation of schools of law, social and political contexts. The course examines case studies in laws of sale, marriage, divorce, and the obligation to forbid wrong.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Sadeghi, B. (PI)
LAW 587A: Criminal Defense Clinic: Clinical Practice
The Criminal Defense Clinic is the only legal organization in the country devoted to representing individuals facing life imprisonment under California's Three Strikes law, which was enacted by voter-approved initiative in 1994. The Clinic represents defendants who have committed minor, non-violent, offenses yet face a life term under the recidivist sentencing law. We represent individuals at every stage of the criminal process: at trial, on appeal, and in state and federal post-conviction habeas corpus proceedings. Current clients include inmates serving life sentences for stealing one dollar in loose change from a parked car; for simple possession of less than a gram of narcotics; and for writing bad checks. Starting in the Winter 2010 quarter, the Clinic will also address public policy issues raised by the Three Strikes law. This work will include legislative and fiscal analysis, political strategy, empirical studies and scholarship, and media relations. The initial goal of the Clinic's public policy work will be to evaluate various reform proposals and strategic options, including initiative campaigns, legislative action in the state assembly, and impact litigation. We will also work with a number of outside organizations committed to criminal justice public policy, including both defendant-oriented advocacy groups and prosecutor's offices throughout the state. We strongly encourage students of all political persuasions to apply to participate in the Clinic. In terms of the Clinic's case work, Clinic students work in teams of two and take primary responsibility for all aspects of the Clinic's litigation. Students are responsible for managing relationships with Clinic clients, including visiting clients in prison; students also conduct factual investigations in the field throughout California, research case law and draft court pleadings, and argue cases in open court. Much of the Clinic's work involves novel and complex appellate and post-conviction constitutional litigation. Clinic attorneys supervise student work and meet weekly with each student team. The Clinic also includes a seminar component, which covers instruction on research and writing skills, investigation techniques, and advanced doctrinal analysis of state and federal criminal law. The seminar also involves presentations from guest speakers, including public policy advocates, outside counsel, and experts in forensic psychology. In the course of a quarter, each student team is expected to complete at least one major written project. That project depends on the timing and posture of each case but is typically a legal brief for filing in state or federal court. The Clinic was founded in 2006 by Larry Marshall and Michael Romano. One of the aspirations of the Clinic is to adopt clinical pedagogy, litigation strategies, and policy reform developed in the context of capital and innocence programs and engineered by Professor Marshall and apply them to the Clinic's cases under the Three Strikes law. The Clinic is supervised and instructed by Michael Romano, who maintains a small criminal defense and civil rights practice in San Francisco, and Galit Lipa, a former public defender in California and Washington DC. General Structure of Clinical Courses Beginning with the 2009-2010 academic year, each of the Law School's clinical courses is being offered on a full-time basis for 12 credits. Students enrolled in a clinic are not permitted to enroll in any other classes, seminars, directed research or other credit-yielding activities during the quarter in which they are enrolled in a clinic. This will allow students to obtain an immersive professional experience without the need to balance clinical projects with other classes, exams and papers. (The rules described here do not apply to Advanced Clinics for students who are continuing with a clinic in which they were previously enrolled. For information about Advanced Clinics, please see the course descriptions for those courses.) Students enrolled in a clinic should expect to work at least 40 hours per week and to be available for meetings during normal business hours. Because students have no other courses (and hence no exams or papers), the clinical quarter goes from the first day of classes through the final day of the examination period. The work during the week is divided into three components. First, the main component is the work on client matters or case work. Students are expected to devote at least 30 hours per week to the various facets of this work (this time includes meetings with instructors to discuss the work). Second, students will spend approximately five-to-seven hours per week preparing for and participating in a weekly seminar or seminars. Third, over the course of the quarter each student will spend a total of 27 hours (plus appropriate preparation time) participating in "clinical modules." These clinic-wide modules are mini-courses designed to enhance the clinical quarter by providing students with opportunities to develop their professional skills, problem solving capacities, understanding of professional ethics, and exposure to professional values. Each module involves 4.5 hours of meeting time and students are required to complete six modules during the course of their clinical quarter. Some modules and some clinic meetings may take place on evenings or weekends. Students will be awarded three separate grades for their clinical quarter, each reflecting four credits. The three grades are broken into the following categories: clinical practice; clinical methods; and clinical coursework. Grading is pursuant to the H/P system. Students may not enroll in any clinic (basic or advanced) which would result in their earning more than 24 clinical credits during their law school career.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
Instructors:
Romano, M. (PI)
LAW 587B: Criminal Defense Clinic: Clinical Methods
The Criminal Defense Clinic is the only legal organization in the country devoted to representing individuals facing life imprisonment under California's Three Strikes law, which was enacted by voter-approved initiative in 1994. The Clinic represents defendants who have committed minor, non-violent, offenses yet face a life term under the recidivist sentencing law. We represent individuals at every stage of the criminal process: at trial, on appeal, and in state and federal post-conviction habeas corpus proceedings. Current clients include inmates serving life sentences for stealing one dollar in loose change from a parked car; for simple possession of less than a gram of narcotics; and for writing bad checks. Starting in the Winter 2010 quarter, the Clinic will also address public policy issues raised by the Three Strikes law. This work will include legislative and fiscal analysis, political strategy, empirical studies and scholarship, and media relations. The initial goal of the Clinic's public policy work will be to evaluate various reform proposals and strategic options, including initiative campaigns, legislative action in the state assembly, and impact litigation. We will also work with a number of outside organizations committed to criminal justice public policy, including both defendant-oriented advocacy groups and prosecutor's offices throughout the state. We strongly encourage students of all political persuasions to apply to participate in the Clinic. In terms of the Clinic's case work, Clinic students work in teams of two and take primary responsibility for all aspects of the Clinic's litigation. Students are responsible for managing relationships with Clinic clients, including visiting clients in prison; students also conduct factual investigations in the field throughout California, research case law and draft court pleadings, and argue cases in open court. Much of the Clinic's work involves novel and complex appellate and post-conviction constitutional litigation. Clinic attorneys supervise student work and meet weekly with each student team. The Clinic also includes a seminar component, which covers instruction on research and writing skills, investigation techniques, and advanced doctrinal analysis of state and federal criminal law. The seminar also involves presentations from guest speakers, including public policy advocates, outside counsel, and experts in forensic psychology. In the course of a quarter, each student team is expected to complete at least one major written project. That project depends on the timing and posture of each case but is typically a legal brief for filing in state or federal court. The Clinic was founded in 2006 by Larry Marshall and Michael Romano. One of the aspirations of the Clinic is to adopt clinical pedagogy, litigation strategies, and policy reform developed in the context of capital and innocence programs and engineered by Professor Marshall and apply them to the Clinic's cases under the Three Strikes law. The Clinic is supervised and instructed by Michael Romano, who maintains a small criminal defense and civil rights practice in San Francisco, and Galit Lipa, a former public defender in California and Washington DC. General Structure of Clinical Courses Beginning with the 2009-2010 academic year, each of the Law School's clinical courses is being offered on a full-time basis for 12 credits. Students enrolled in a clinic are not permitted to enroll in any other classes, seminars, directed research or other credit-yielding activities during the quarter in which they are enrolled in a clinic. This will allow students to obtain an immersive professional experience without the need to balance clinical projects with other classes, exams and papers. (The rules described here do not apply to Advanced Clinics for students who are continuing with a clinic in which they were previously enrolled. For information about Advanced Clinics, please see the course descriptions for those courses.) Students enrolled in a clinic should expect to work at least 40 hours per week and to be available for meetings during normal business hours. Because students have no other courses (and hence no exams or papers), the clinical quarter goes from the first day of classes through the final day of the examination period. The work during the week is divided into three components. First, the main component is the work on client matters or case work. Students are expected to devote at least 30 hours per week to the various facets of this work (this time includes meetings with instructors to discuss the work). Second, students will spend approximately five-to-seven hours per week preparing for and participating in a weekly seminar or seminars. Third, over the course of the quarter each student will spend a total of 27 hours (plus appropriate preparation time) participating in "clinical modules." These clinic-wide modules are mini-courses designed to enhance the clinical quarter by providing students with opportunities to develop their professional skills, problem solving capacities, understanding of professional ethics, and exposure to professional values. Each module involves 4.5 hours of meeting time and students are required to complete six modules during the course of their clinical quarter. Some modules and some clinic meetings may take place on evenings or weekends. Students will be awarded three separate grades for their clinical quarter, each reflecting four credits. The three grades are broken into the following categories: clinical practice; clinical methods; and clinical coursework. Grading is pursuant to the H/P system. Students may not enroll in any clinic (basic or advanced) which would result in their earning more than 24 clinical credits during their law school career.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
Instructors:
Romano, M. (PI)
LAW 587C: Criminal Defense Clinic: Clinical Coursework
The Criminal Defense Clinic is the only legal organization in the country devoted to representing individuals facing life imprisonment under California's Three Strikes law, which was enacted by voter-approved initiative in 1994. The Clinic represents defendants who have committed minor, non-violent, offenses yet face a life term under the recidivist sentencing law. We represent individuals at every stage of the criminal process: at trial, on appeal, and in state and federal post-conviction habeas corpus proceedings. Current clients include inmates serving life sentences for stealing one dollar in loose change from a parked car; for simple possession of less than a gram of narcotics; and for writing bad checks. Starting in the Winter 2010 quarter, the Clinic will also address public policy issues raised by the Three Strikes law. This work will include legislative and fiscal analysis, political strategy, empirical studies and scholarship, and media relations. The initial goal of the Clinic's public policy work will be to evaluate various reform proposals and strategic options, including initiative campaigns, legislative action in the state assembly, and impact litigation. We will also work with a number of outside organizations committed to criminal justice public policy, including both defendant-oriented advocacy groups and prosecutor's offices throughout the state. We strongly encourage students of all political persuasions to apply to participate in the Clinic. In terms of the Clinic's case work, Clinic students work in teams of two and take primary responsibility for all aspects of the Clinic's litigation. Students are responsible for managing relationships with Clinic clients, including visiting clients in prison; students also conduct factual investigations in the field throughout California, research case law and draft court pleadings, and argue cases in open court. Much of the Clinic's work involves novel and complex appellate and post-conviction constitutional litigation. Clinic attorneys supervise student work and meet weekly with each student team. The Clinic also includes a seminar component, which covers instruction on research and writing skills, investigation techniques, and advanced doctrinal analysis of state and federal criminal law. The seminar also involves presentations from guest speakers, including public policy advocates, outside counsel, and experts in forensic psychology. In the course of a quarter, each student team is expected to complete at least one major written project. That project depends on the timing and posture of each case but is typically a legal brief for filing in state or federal court. The Clinic was founded in 2006 by Larry Marshall and Michael Romano. One of the aspirations of the Clinic is to adopt clinical pedagogy, litigation strategies, and policy reform developed in the context of capital and innocence programs and engineered by Professor Marshall and apply them to the Clinic's cases under the Three Strikes law. The Clinic is supervised and instructed by Michael Romano, who maintains a small criminal defense and civil rights practice in San Francisco, and Galit Lipa, a former public defender in California and Washington DC. General Structure of Clinical Courses Beginning with the 2009-2010 academic year, each of the Law School's clinical courses is being offered on a full-time basis for 12 credits. Students enrolled in a clinic are not permitted to enroll in any other classes, seminars, directed research or other credit-yielding activities during the quarter in which they are enrolled in a clinic. This will allow students to obtain an immersive professional experience without the need to balance clinical projects with other classes, exams and papers. (The rules described here do not apply to Advanced Clinics for students who are continuing with a clinic in which they were previously enrolled. For information about Advanced Clinics, please see the course descriptions for those courses.) Students enrolled in a clinic should expect to work at least 40 hours per week and to be available for meetings during normal business hours. Because students have no other courses (and hence no exams or papers), the clinical quarter goes from the first day of classes through the final day of the examination period. The work during the week is divided into three components. First, the main component is the work on client matters or case work. Students are expected to devote at least 30 hours per week to the various facets of this work (this time includes meetings with instructors to discuss the work). Second, students will spend approximately five-to-seven hours per week preparing for and participating in a weekly seminar or seminars. Third, over the course of the quarter each student will spend a total of 27 hours (plus appropriate preparation time) participating in "clinical modules." These clinic-wide modules are mini-courses designed to enhance the clinical quarter by providing students with opportunities to develop their professional skills, problem solving capacities, understanding of professional ethics, and exposure to professional values. Each module involves 4.5 hours of meeting time and students are required to complete six modules during the course of their clinical quarter. Some modules and some clinic meetings may take place on evenings or weekends. Students will be awarded three separate grades for their clinical quarter, each reflecting four credits. The three grades are broken into the following categories: clinical practice; clinical methods; and clinical coursework. Grading is pursuant to the H/P system. Students may not enroll in any clinic (basic or advanced) which would result in their earning more than 24 clinical credits during their law school career.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
Instructors:
Romano, M. (PI)
LAW 589: Advanced Criminal Defense Clinic
The Advanced Criminal Defense Clinic offers students who have successfully completed the Criminal Defense Clinic to continue their work representing clients.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2-7
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Romano, M. (PI)
LAW 590: Capital Markets I
This course is about money, fraud, human nature, statutory interpretation, vagaries of the judicial process, and the federal securities laws. There will be a particular emphasis on developments related to the current economic crisis, including the operation of markets for credit derivatives and proposals for reform of the financial services industry. The course is divided into four modules. The first module describes modern capital markets with a particular emphasis on the evolution of derivative instruments and the challenge these instruments pose to the regulatory system. No mathematical skill beyond addition, subtraction, and multiplication of whole numbers is necessary. Fractions are frowned upon. Long division is prohibited. The second module addresses the domain of federal securities regulation. It will explore the expansive scope of the definition of the term "security" as well as the ability to transact offshore in a manner that legally avoids federal securities regulation. The third module focuses on the SEC's mandatory disclosure system, with particular emphasis on the process of "going public" and the operation of the market for privately placed securities in the venture capital process. The fourth module addresses fraud as it is prosecuted under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act of 1934. Attention will focus on litigation related to the recent subprime meltdown, class action claims, SEC enforcement proceedings, and criminal prosecutions. Capital Markets I will focus primarily on Modules one and two. Capital Markets II will focus primarily on Modules three and four.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Grundfest, J. (PI)
LAW 591: Capital Markets II
This course is about money, fraud, human nature, statutory interpretation, vagaries of the judicial process, and the federal securities laws. There will be a particular emphasis on developments related to the current economic crisis, including the operation of markets for credit derivatives and proposals for reform of the financial services industry. The course is divided into four modules. The first module describes modern capital markets with a particular emphasis on the evolution of derivative instruments and the challenge these instruments pose to the regulatory system. No mathematical skill beyond addition, subtraction, and multiplication of whole numbers is necessary. Fractions are frowned upon. Long division is prohibited. The second module addresses the domain of federal securities regulation. It will explore the expansive scope of the definition of the term "security" as well as the ability to transact offshore in a manner that legally avoids federal securities regulation. The third module focuses on the SEC's mandatory disclosure system, with particular emphasis on the process of "going public" and the operation of the market for privately placed securities in the venture capital process. The fourth module addresses fraud as it is prosecuted under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act of 1934. Attention will focus on litigation related to the recent subprime meltdown, class action claims, SEC enforcement proceedings, and criminal prosecutions. Capital Markets I will focus primarily on Modules one and two. Capital Markets II will focus primarily on Modules three and four.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Grundfest, J. (PI)
LAW 599: Climate Change Workshop
Students prepare papers to be used as technical support for problems that arise in the negotiations for the new global climate change agreement. Examples of paper subjects include analyzing the performance of proposed financial mechanisms in support of climate favoring technologies, the roles of intellectual property in facilitating or impeding technology diffusion, and the effectiveness of existing or past efforts to influence technology innovation at national or international levels. Focus is on output to those questions framed by the negotiation issues where bottlenecks may be avoided through improved technical support. (Semester schedule)
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
LAW 600: Federal Indian Law
This course offers an overview of federal Indian law through a study of cases, statutes and historical material. It focuses on the interlocking relationships of tribes, states and the federal government with special emphasis on economic development, religious freedom, and environmental justice.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Biestman, K. (PI)
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